CBS News Boston reports that the Massachusetts State Police and FBI agents were called to the Norwegian Breakaway around 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday while the NCL cruise ship was docked at the Black Falcon Terminal in Boston. The ship’s itinerary indicates that it previosly sailed from New York on September 11th and had left Rhode
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COVID-19 Cases Increase on Cruise Ships As Lines Suppress Information
There has been a recent explosion of COVID-19 cases on cruise ships, led by the major U.S. based cruise lines like Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL). None of these companies are being transparent with members of the public who are largely reliant on whisle-blower crew members and concerned cruise guests to tell…
At Least Ten COVID-19 cases on NCL’s Norwegian Breakaway As Cruise Ship Returns to New Orleans
Reuters reports that a Norwegian cruise ship docked this morning in New Orleans with around 3,200 passengers after COVID-19 was detected in ten crew members and guests on the ship, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not disclose such details regarding the name of the…
Passenger Arrested for Breaking Girlfriend’s Jaw and Arm on Norwegian Breakaway
A passenger attacked and severely injured his girlfriend ten days ago onboard the Norwegian Breakaway, according to court filings in a criminal case filed in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
An affidavit of an FBI agent who investigated the incident filed together with the criminal complaint* in the case of U.S. v. Smiley (case number…
Norwegian Breakaway Flunks USPH Sanitation Inspection
NCL’s Norwegian Breakaway failed a recent sanitation inspection conducted by the United States Public Health (USPH) inspectors in New Orleans, Lousianna.
The purpose of the Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is to assist the cruise ship industry to “prevent and control the introduction, transmission, and spread of…
Arbitrator Orders NCL to Pay $3,337,500 to Seriously Injured Crew Member
Today, the Miami Daily Business Review (DBR) reported on an arbitration award entered against Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) on behalf of a seriously injured crew member.
The DBR article, titled “Miami Attorney Helps Secure $3.3M for Man Whose Arm Was Amputated After Seeking Care for Flu-Like Symptoms,” explains that the case involved a…
NCL CEO Del Rio on the Norwegian Breakaway Bomb Cyclone Fiasco: “Weather Can Be Unpredictable . . . (It’s) All Good”
NCL Holdings president and CEO Frank Dek Rio rang the bell this morning at the New York Stock Exchange in celebration of the five year anniversary of NCL’s listing. Del Rio was later interviewed by CNBC when he was asked about cyclone Grayson, often called the “bomb cyclone” storm, which terrorized the passengers aboard the…
Passengers Terrorized: Norwegian Breakaway Sails through “Bomb Cyclone”
This week, a number of passengers contacted our office after returning from the harrowing end of their ill fated cruise aboard NCL’s Norwegian Breakaway.
News accounts indicate that on January 2, 2018, the Breakaway stopped at its private island, Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas. Videos available online show the weather, initially calm and…
U.S. Coast Guard Medevacs Teenager from Norwegian Breakaway
The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a 14 year old boy from a NCL cruise ship approximately 300 miles east of Ocean City, Maryland yesterday morning.
The crew of Norwegian Breakaway notified the Coast Guard center in Portsmouth, Virginia that a passenger on the cruise ship was suffering from appendicitis.
The Coast Guard station in Elizabeth…
Coast Guard Medevacs Passengers from Carnival Magic, Carnival Ecstasy, Celebrity Reflection and Norwegian Breakaway
The U.S. Coast Guard was busy on Thursday and Friday with four medevacs of ill cruise ship passengers off of the coast of Florida, North Carolina and Puerto Rico.
The Coast Guard first provided an emergency airlift on Thursday morning to a 47-year-old male passenger from the Celebrity Reflection, to a hospital in San…